#Rse

[bobacupcake]

💚🔷🔴

[battlevilla]

[pokemon-npcs]

[vivipokedex]

#0299

Nosepass

[jisuto]

[shuaida233]

[team-magma-propaganda]

The homosexuality of this cannot be overstated

[k-chips]

Happy 7 years of canon Hardenshipping!

Can’t believe 7 years ago they formalized gay people

[aycief]

came across a stream for a shiny jirachi hunt last night

[ID: a digital sketch of a shiny Jirachi. it is floating in space, looking down curiously at a shining star that it is gently holding in its hands. aside from its longs tails floating above it, the top two-thirds of the image are negative space. /END ID]

[haveyouusedthispokemon]

*If you've played multiple games from this generation, please pick whichever you played first from this generation.

[kafus]

i was waiting to talk about this until i found the time to back up my save file and double check the pokemon data, plus have a follow up conversation with the person who traded them to me... but i finally did that and verified to the best of my ability that these are real, soooo...

the highlight of my convention weekend! i made friends with a woman who traded me some legitimate 10th anniversary event pokemon she got back in 2006!!

these pokemon were distributed as part of the Journey Across America tour that pokemon hosted in various locations... well, across America, in 2006 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of pokemon's japanese release in 1996. the venue that this person went to was the one on June 3rd, in Detroit, Michigan. there were 20 pokemon choices available, but she said that she picked latias/latios/espeon/umbreon for dex completion reasons since these four were a nightmare to get in gen 3, and she recounted that a lot of other people also were picking espeon/umbreon at the time for similar reasons lol.

while i had no reason to doubt her at all, especially after she sent me photos she took on a disposable camera in 2006 of herself at the event (not sharing for her privacy but they were very cool), i did check the data of these mons and everything that should match with online dumps of these events matches, but none of the randomized PIDs/stats/natures match online dumps, which means they are unique, which makes sense because they were obtained by her and not injected from online. so yeah they're as real as i can verify as someone who wasn't there

i am extremely grateful for her giving these to me, they're some of the coolest pokemon i own now! and listening to her tell stories about the events and other stuff going on in gen 3 at the time when i was a little too young to be doing that stuff is fascinating to me. gen 3 was my first gen and i feel honored to own these. in return i let her take as many mystery gift distributions as she wanted from my mystery gift booth, as well as a charmander with egg moves and a clone of my colosseum ho-oh i obtained myself from my emerald lol

oh and for the record she also passed me a MYSTRY mew - these are interesting because there were a finite amount of MYSTRY mews, and the online community actually knows every single one in existence, so i was able to download a save file containing every released MYSTRY mew and i was able to match this one with one of the ones on that save so it's likely real as well. so fucking cool UGH

i'll probably be ribboning the umbreon since it's a lucky 1/8th girl (i didn't notice that until checking the pokemon data today somehow) and then the others if i still have time after my massive pokemon bank checklist...

[battlevilla]

[pokemon-npcs]

[vivipokedex]

#0304 - #0306

Aron, Lairon, Aggron

[jisuto]

[shuaida233]